secretus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of sēcernō (“separate; part; reject”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /seːˈkreː.tus/, [s̠eːˈkreːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈkre.tus/, [seˈkrɛːt̪us]
Participle
sēcrētus (feminine sēcrēta, neuter sēcrētum, comparative sēcrētior, adverb sēcrētē); first/second-declension participle
- put apart, sundered, severed, separated, having been separated
- (figuratively) disjoined, parted, dissociated, having been parted
- (figuratively) distinguished, discerned, having been discerned
- (figuratively) set apart, rejected, excluded, having been excluded
- (figuratively) secluded, deserted, having been secluded
- (figuratively) confided only to a few, secret, hidden
- Synonyms: clandestīnus, obscūrus, arcānus, occultus, perobscūrus
- Antonyms: manifestus, conspicuus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sēcrētus | sēcrēta | sēcrētum | sēcrētī | sēcrētae | sēcrēta | |
| Genitive | sēcrētī | sēcrētae | sēcrētī | sēcrētōrum | sēcrētārum | sēcrētōrum | |
| Dative | sēcrētō | sēcrētō | sēcrētīs | ||||
| Accusative | sēcrētum | sēcrētam | sēcrētum | sēcrētōs | sēcrētās | sēcrēta | |
| Ablative | sēcrētō | sēcrētā | sēcrētō | sēcrētīs | |||
| Vocative | sēcrēte | sēcrēta | sēcrētum | sēcrētī | sēcrētae | sēcrēta | |
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: săcret
- Italian: segreto
- → Sicilian: sigretu
- Old French: segrei
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: segretu
- Sicilian: sicritu
- → Maltese: sigriet
- Venetian: secreto, segreto, segret
- → Albanian: shkretë
- → Aromanian: shcret, shcretu
- → Alemannic German: Sekreet
- → Asturian: secretu
- → Basque: sekretu
- → Galician: secreto
- → Italian: secreto
- → Macedonian: секрет (sekret)
- → Portuguese: secreto
- → Romanian: secret
- → Old French: secret
- → Romansch: secret
- → Russian: секрет (sekret)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: secreto
References
- “secretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “secretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- secretus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) in private; tête-à-tête: remotis arbitris or secreto
- (ambiguous) in private; tête-à-tête: remotis arbitris or secreto
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